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On second thought, maybe underpopulation is a bigger problem than overpopulation

American media have largely ignored the issue of population decline for the simple reason that it hasn’t happened here yet. Unlike Europe, the United States has long been the beneficiary of robust immigration. This has helped us not only by directly bolstering the number of people calling the United States home but also by propping up the birthrate, since immigrant women tend to produce far more children than the native-born do.

But both those advantages look to diminish in years to come. A report issued last month by the Pew Research Center found that immigrant births fell from 102 per 1,000 women in 2007 to 87.8 per 1,000 in 2012. That helped bring the overall U.S. birthrate to a mere 64 per 1,000 women—not enough to sustain our current population.

Moreover, the poor, highly fertile countries that once churned out immigrants by the boatload are now experiencing birthrate declines of their own. From 1960 to 2009, Mexico’s fertility rate tumbled from 7.3 live births per woman to 2.4, India’s dropped from six to 2.5, and Brazil’s fell from 6.15 to 1.9. Even in sub-Saharan Africa, where the average birthrate remains a relatively blistering 4.66, fertility is projected to fall below replacement level by the 2070s. This change in developing countries will affect not only the U.S. population, of course, but eventually the world’s.

Why is this happening? Scientists who study population dynamics point to a phenomenon called “demographic transition.”

Whatever. Elective abortion is a constitutionally protected need and we need to pay Planned Parenthood millions of dollars a year of fungible dollars to “not” provide taxpayer-funded abortions. In the meantime, we’ll find ways to deny care to seniors. My uncle is living through months and months of totally incapacitating, debilitating pain because Medicare is refusing to pay for a second cortisone shot and he’s waiting to get on a Medicare surgery schedule.

All hail Obama, the almighty dictator who ensures that all die (some federally funded) and suffer equally, unless they have lots and lots of money!

Yes, it’s abortion, but it’s also cultural norms too. Getting married and having kids is not as important to younger generations as it was to past ones. You see that with falling marriage rates and people not having kids.

So finally over population joins all the other liberal/leftist crap science predictions. If even 10% of their doom and gloom predictions had ever come true we would be in deep $hit right now. Lucky for us whenever a liberal/leftest opens their mouth to vomit forth “facts” we can rest assured that it will not be factual.

Yes, it’s abortion, but it’s also cultural norms too. Getting married and having kids is not as important to younger generations as it was to past ones. You see that with falling marriage rates and people not having kids.

IR-MN on January 9, 2013 at 11:24 PM

Both my kids are in their twenties and have no significant others. They and their friends prefer not to have the hassle and drama of relationships. They much rather go out with a group of friends then have one on one dates. They also have no plans for kids but neither did I at their age so that could change.

Bingo. Nobody is talking about this because you would then have to bring up the exception to the rule: Muslim births are still happening at fast clip. Then you would be labeled a racist and never get published again.